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In the Shadow of Mt. TBR

Okay, so I’ve been a bit lazy of late. I blame it all on LOST, truly. It’s not all LOST’s fault, but I’m blaming all of it on the show anyway. 😀

Mags and I have been rewatching the past seasons, we’re about halfway through season 2 now, and it’s “brother” everything around here right now. “Are you going to school, brother? Don’t forget your backpack, brother. Do you have Math Bowl after school, brother? Or cheerleading, brother?” Meh, she rolls her eyes at me and says, “Mom, stop it.” but I know she loves it. I know she laughs as soon as she leaves and is just too cool to give a chuckle in my presence.

We’re also almost done with Stargate SG-1, and working our way through Atlantis as they were televised concurrently. LOST and Stargate, it’s all their fault. Seriously, though, I’m loving Stargate Atlantis so much more than SG-1 right now for two reasons: 1) The Ori really suck as bad guys, honestly. The Goa’uld were such better baddies… not to mention beatable. I just don’t see us kicking much Ori butt and it’s a bit depressing. and Atlantis have Wraiths to fight (and now we’re getting the Pegasus Galaxy’s version of the Replicators… meh). Wraiths are creepy/cool/bad/ugly-but-beautiful aliens who suck the life from their victims with “mouths” in their palms. The SECOND reason that Atlantis is better than SG-1 (at least the last two or three seasons of the show) is:

Ronan Dex

OMG… Faint! He’s soo HAWT! He’s played by Jason Momoa, who’s okay, but I totally have a character crush. He fiercely guards his friends (even McKay, lol), loves deep, and has honor and integrity I wish could be found in more people. AGAIN… lol… Maggie rolls her eyes a LOT when we watch Atlantis. She really hates it when I lick the TV screen.

*Sigh* have to wait until the mail comes tomorrow for more Atlantis.

Which is some of the other things that has been capturing my interests, btw. There’s fairly good evidence that the “Lost City of Atlantis” was actually Minoa, which experienced severe destruction after being repeatedly swept over by wave after wave of a powerfuls tsunami when the iland volcano that is now Santorini in the Agean sea suffered a mega eruption 10 times that of Krakatoa which blew out it’s cauldera. 80-90% death toll, and whoever was left were slaughtered in the invasion of the Peloponnese Greeks, who were possible the only major empire in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to have remained unaffected by the disaster. Cool, eh?

Then there’s the whole science of “free energy” that I’ve been studying up on. The Hutchison effect has got to be one of the most bizarre phenomena I’ve ever seen. Through the manipulation of energy, they’re able to transmute substances into unknown elements, levitate objects, and even cause a sudden and instantaneous death on the cellular level. It’s totally weird and completely real. It’s quite possible that we could see the elimination of need for fossil fuels, except for two things… DOLLARS and EGOS. DOLLARS, because energy barrons are NOT going to allow any kind of invention that would allow us to go off-grid. Simply put, “If I can’t slap a meter on it, then I won’t fund it” as J. P. Morgan told Tesla. As to EGOS, well… The mainstream, “accepted” scientific experts have ranted a lifetime against the idea that energy could be free (because they’re paid by BARRONS to “research” such claims) and if such a shift were to occur in our understanding, then they’d have to admit they’re wrong. OMIGOD! Nooooz! The universe would implode from the sudden intake of breath!

Then of course there’s the whole Paradox of Choice that will keep us bound to environment-polluting, resource-sucking fossil fuels. Basically, if it requires making a decision in our modern world full of 175 different salad dressings and over 200 choices of breakfast cereal, we become paralyzed and, instead of making an informed decision, we opt for inaction.

Then I realized this morning that I’d totally missed the PUSH deadline. Crap. LOL… So I’ll be getting the entries compiled and getting a winner picked quickly. So you get an extended chance to enter. I have a review of Tainted by Brooke Morgan to post tomorrow, so I’ll get the winner picked for Thursday then. I’ve been such a slacker!

I think part of my problem has been that I was pushing myself too much and it sucked all the fun out of everything. I think I’d rather enjoy the books I’m reading than “get them done”. Okay… back to finish Tainted now 🙂